The Ouroboros King
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.8h
- Value
- $3.57/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 51% ($4.89)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 62% ($3.79)
- Last discount ended
- 21 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: true, need some graphics to display things. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.49, set in August 2026. 35 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeon Rushers ($2.99, scores 10).
Of the 387 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 4.4 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
75% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 03:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Ouroboros King scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2096510/the-ouroboros-kingReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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